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The church of San Francisco under a blue sky, Quito
QuitoThe church of San Francisco under a blue sky
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Quito by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Quito or Windhoek?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Quito for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Quito’s own page.

Choose Windhoek for

Windhoek does not lead in any category we score.

What lies behind each score is written up on Windhoek’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Quito 5, Windhoek 4: Quito leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Quito 54, Windhoek 36: Quito leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Quito 77, Windhoek 30: Quito leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Quito 40, Windhoek 25: Quito leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Quito 86, Windhoek 52: Quito leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Quito 55, Windhoek 14: Quito leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Quito 32, Windhoek 30: Quito leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Quito 45, Windhoek 22: Quito leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Quito 40, Windhoek 30: Quito leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Quito 78, Windhoek 62: Quito leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Quito 38, Windhoek 18: Quito leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Quito 44, Windhoek 30: Quito leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Quito and Windhoek.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Quito
Best match
50match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Windhoek
29match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Quito in July

18 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
12 hdaylight a day

Windhoek in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Quito's station stands 208 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Quito: 1961-1990 normals, Izobamba-Santa Catalina (16.8 km from centre). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureQuitoWindhoek
Official languageSpanish, Shuar, Northern QuichuaEnglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+2
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,850 m1,650 m
Main airportMariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO)20 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureQuitoWindhoek
City population1,763,275486,169
People per km²4,73595
Museums within 10 km165
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.